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WorksheetsUnit 5: Test Quiz 1
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Tensions between anti-slavery and pro-slavery movements grew during the 1950s. Which event is NOT one of those events?
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
The Dred Scott Decision
Seneca Falls Conference New York City
Bleeding Kansas
What Idea during James K. Polk's Presidency represented America's desire to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean?
Sectionalism
Patriotism
Prohibition
Manifest Destiny
What two territories did James K. Polk first add to the United States?
Georgia and Florida
Colorado and Nevada
Texas and Oregon
New Yorkistan and New Englandistan
What line did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 designate as the separation slave (south of line) and free (north of the line) state?
36 30
54 40
20 24
52 30
Why did people move to California in 1849?
Hoping to escape religious persecution
Hoping to escape slavery as it was a free state
Hoping to get rich due to the discovery of gold
Hoping to create trade routes from the Pacific Ocean to Asia
The Scott v. Sanford decision also known as the Dred Scott Case ruled the slaves were not citizens and therefore had no right to sue.
True
False
What two groups were involved in the controversy known as "Bleeding Kansas"?
Patriots and Red Coats
Anti-Slavery and Proslavery members
Federal Troops and Native American Warriors
Temperance Movement members and Prohibitionists
Who led the Raid at the federal armory in Harper's Ferry Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
John B. Gordon
George McClellan
John Brown
What was the key issue that American Politicians were trying to solve leading up to the Civil War?
The use of funds from tariffs collected
through the American System plan
The expansion of Slavery into newly acquired territories
How to handle the Natives living the newly acquired territories
Need for internal improvements in transportation
Under the Missouri Compromise, Maine entered as a slave state and Missouri entered as a free state.
True
False
After the Mexican-American War, America gained territory from California to Texas. Anti-Slavery advocates in the US Congress attempted to pass a provision which stated,
"There shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude in any territory on the continent of America which shall hereafter be acquired by or annexed to the United States…..except for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
What was the Provision Called?
Wilmot Proviso
Tariff of Abomination
Dred Scott Provision
John Scott Proviso
What term means that the people have the right to choose what will happen in their territory?
It was a key feature of the Kansas-Nebraska act that lead to proslavery and anti slavery groups moving into the area setting up for a major clash.
Manifest Destiny
Nullification Crisis
Sectionalism
Popular Sovereignty
What war led to an INCREASE in growing sectionalism between the North and South, over the issue of slavery?
The Civil War
The Mexican-American War
World War 2
War of 1812
The fugitive slave act, California becomes a free state, and the end of slave trade in Washington D.C were all provision in what compromise?
Wilmot Proviso
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Kansas-Nebraska Compromise
Who did the United States of American sign a TREATY with to acquire the Oregon territory?
France
Spain
England
Mexico
What decision was reached by the Supreme Court following arguments in the case of Sandford v Scott that angered many antislavery and northern citizens?
the possession of slaves were legal everywhere including northern states
Slavery was illegal in all states including all US territories
